FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Washington, DC
Mr. Thomas Gregory (Gregg) Motta, Esq. currently serves as the Senior Science and Technology (S&T) Adviser to the Executive Assistant Director (EAD) of the FBI’s S&T Branch. The FBI S&T Branch is comprised of the FBI Operational Technology Division (OTD), the FBI Laboratory Division (LD), and the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS).
Mr. Motta joined the FBI in 1998 as an attorney in the then Technology Law Unit of FBI’s Office of the General Counsel (OGC). Promoted to Unit Chief of the OGC’s then newly organized S&T Law Unit (STLU) in 2002, Mr. Motta served as lead counsel to the OTD, LD and the FBI Cyber Division (CyD) while supervising a team of ten (10) specialized telecommunications, cyber and forensic science attorneys and paralegals embedded in those divisions. During this time, Mr. Motta was awarded by the Department of Justice the John Marshall Award for Excellence in Legal Guidance. He is a recipient of the 2007 Office of the Director for National Intelligence (ODNI) Intelligence Community Legal Award for his contributions to the modernization of FISA.
In 2007, Mr. Motta was promoted to the FBI’s Senior Service, first as a Section Chief in charge of the FBI’s Digital Evidence computer forensics programs in OTD. In 2011, Mr. Motta was assigned as an S&T Policy Adviser at the ODNI Science & Technology Directorate where he completed his IC Joint Duty qualification and received the ODNI Exceptional Service Award. In late 2012, he returned to the FBI Senor Service as a STB Senior Level (SL) S&T Policy Adviser for the review of all STB policy. In 2013, Mr. Motta was selected to serve to serve as the Chair to revamp the FBI’s Institutional Review Board for Human Subject Research Protections (IRB) following a OIC red team report critical of the IRB operations and compliance.
In 1996, and again in 1998, Mr. Motta served as a Legal Specialist in the Office of the Prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (UNICTY) at The Hague, Netherlands where he led a team of attorneys making prosecution sufficiency assessments on dossier submissions from the former Yugoslavian states. Upon return, Mr. Motta served as the Chief of the High Tech & Computer Crimes Unit at the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General prosecuting computer crime cases and supervising a group of specialized attorneys with their own dedicated state police investigative component.
Mr. Motta is a graduate of Stonehill College in North Easton, MA. He holds a Juris Doctorate earned at St. Louis University School of Law and the University of Maine School of Law. Mr. Motta is a member of the Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts state bars, as well as the Federal bars for the Districts of Maine and Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
H09 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Human Subjects Protections in the US Intelligence Community (IC)
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM ET